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Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are…

Why Relationships Are the Secret to Healthy Aging

Compassionate Love Quiz

Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes…

How to Bring Your Whole Self to Work

Gratitude Quiz

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through…

Can Mindfulness Improve Your Bad Memory?

Mindfulness Quiz

For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different…

Do Men Have a Gratitude Problem?

Connection to Humanity Quiz

Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…

Why Your Community Needs More Green Space

Awe Quiz

When researchers refer to the concept of social connection, they mean the feeling that you belong to a group and generally feel close to…

Why Friendships Are Important for Boys’ Health

Social Capital Quiz

Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…

How to Bring Your Whole Self to Work

Stress and Anxiety Quiz

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…

How to Let Go of an Old Regret

Forgiveness Quiz

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…

Why You Click with Certain People

Empathy Quiz

Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…

Why We Need Hopeful News

Altruism Quiz